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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
Digital Ditch:
Creating political support for digital roads
Jesper Sølund
Head of Press and Documentation Department
Danish Road Safety Council
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
The ditch: • The road safety potential in digital roads is big • Political knowledge about road safety potential is small
From ditch to bridge:How to create political support for digital Roads ?
Results imply actions from the road safety organizations on
opportunities and possibilities
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
Conditions for political support:
1. Cost effective 2. Must offer substantial influence 3. Popular among voters 4. Results at short term 5. Represent a logical new solution 6. Fulfill demands7. Focus in the media
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
ATV
1.Cost effective: The technology is getting cheaper
1 cm highway
1 mb in a computer
Price
Time
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
2. Must offer substantial influence
Attraction: • Political intervention can form the future • Clear political means
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
3. Popular among voters
Road safety by offering support
instead of
Road safety by control and sanctions
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
4. Results at short term
• Concrete and tangible improvements for road users (ESP, BAS, GPS etc.)
• Effect is visible and quickly measured
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
5. Represent a logical new solution
A well developed physical infrastructure is the
backbone in all modern societies
A digital infrastructure is a logical next step and a shift in
paradigm from traditional technical road solutions to digital
integrated solutions for driver, car and road
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
6. Fulfill demands
The technological facilities in new vehicles offers
services at many levels.
It demands more developed digital roads to use
many of the facilities
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7. Focus in the media
A continuing focus in the press on
the road safety potential and other benefits
and the need for political actions for digital roads
generate political awareness
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
Conclusion:
• Many easy points to gain• Few dangerous obstacles
Lets go!!
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
Where to go – the goals for political support
Goals for Danish Road Safety council:
1. Confirmation of a national action plan for use of digital technology to improve road safety
2. Establishing a public development fund for demonstration projects
3. Changed tax rules to benefit dissemination of approved safety technologies in vehicles
4. Insurance price depending on installed safety devices 5. Development and implementation of a national digital
speed limit map6. Here and now dissemination of technologies already
developed and documented effective.
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
How to go – the means for political support
Danish approach :
• Press strategy to bring focus on digital roads: GPS possibilities, digital speed limit maps, e-call ect. Tax reduction policies safety devices
• Seminars and conferences for politicians: ATV, ITS-Denmark, Nordic conference,
• On the agenda for the Danish Road safety Commission – revision of national road safety action plan 2002-2012
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Digital Ditch: Creating political support for digital roads
Thanks!